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"Thursday morning 'hate' [shelling period] was very heavy and deplorably few duds. I counted no shells in 35 minutes. ... It seemed every time we'd try to get some food the shelling would start again. You'd duck in a trench to get a cup of...
Growth of a City. Harry Chandler, who died at 80 in Los Angeles last week, was a New Hampshire boy who went to California for his health after diving into an ice-covered vat near Dartmouth on a dare. In Los Angeles, Chandler's racking cough so annoyed his...
Brereton, a perfectionist of air operations, climbed aboard his plane. Around it gathered hundreds of big C-47 transports, loaded to their stripped ribs with paratroopers and light weapons. The scene was repeated at a score of fields. The big bombers - 1,000 of them - were already out, plastering German...
The flat-dweller wrestled with his Morrison shelter-a flat, tablelike, metal affair, raised from the floor to admit mattress and sleeper, its sides wire-meshed against flying furniture, bricks-and glass. The bumped head (from mismeasured diving under the Morrison) was no longer worth even a casual remark.
Arrived at the moon, the ship, steered and braked by auxiliary rockets, would settle down rear end first. Its passengers, in diving suits, would emerge to explore the moon's surface. The rocket ship would take off again from a portable launching platform. After regaining the earth's...